List of the people who did Cyber Attacks:
1. Robert Tappan Morris and the Morris Worm (1988):-
Creator of the first computer worm transmitted through the Internet. Morris a student at Cornell University in the USA, claimed it his progeny was not aimed to harm but was made for the innocuous intent to determine the vastness of the Cyberspace.
Things went Pear-shaped when the worm encountered a critical error and morphed into a virus which replicated rapidly and began infecting other computer resulting in denial of service. The damage? 6000 computer were reportedly affected causing an estimated $10-$100 million dollars in repair bills. While this event could be pinned as being an unfortunate accident, it no doubt played a part in inspiring the calamitous distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) types of attacks we see today.
2. Mafia Boy causes $1 billion dollars in damages (2000):-
Another 15 year old that caused mischief in cyber space was Michael Calce a.k.a. Mafia Boy. In 2000, Calce, now 25, was just a Canadian high school student when decided to unleash a DDoS attack on a number of High-profile commercial websites including Amazon, CNN, eBay and Yahoo!. And industry expert estimated the attacks resulted in a $US 1.2 Billion dollar damage bill. He was later apprehended. Because he was still a juvenile, Calce was sentenced in 2001 to eight months in oped custody, meaning his movements and actions would be restricted. His online access was also limited by the Court. Calce and since scored gigs as a columnist and recently published a book about his ordeal.
3. Google China hit by Cyber Attack (2009):-
When Google's Chinese head-quarter detected a security breech in mid-December, it opened up a whole can of Worms (pun intended) implicating the Chinese Government. Hackers had gained access to several Google's corporate servers and intellectual property was stolen. In a blog, Google said it has "evidence to suggest that a primary goal of attackers was accessing the GMAIL accounts of Chinese Human rights activists". As the company dug deeper, they found numerous Gmail of users from US, China and Europe had been routinely had been accessed without permissions. Those Emails belongs to advocates of human rights in China. All eyes darted towards the Chinese Government, which has been accused of fragrantly disregarding human rights for years.
Google entered the Chinese market with www.google.cn in 2006 and capitulated to China's stringent Internet censorship regime. The cyber attacks in December 2009 resulted in the company's re-evaluation of it's business in the country.
In March 2010, Google relocated it's servers for Google.cn to Hong Kong in order to escape China's Internet Filtering Policy.
4. Teen Hacks NASA and US Defense Department:-
The Year was 1999. Jonathan James was 15 at that time but what he did that year secured him a place in Hacker's hall of fame. James had managed to penetrate the computers of US department of Defense division and installed a "Black Door" on its servers. This allowed him to intercept thousands of internal emails from different government organizations including ones containing Usernames and passwords for various military Computers. Using the Stolen Information, James was able to steal a piece of NASA software which cost the space exploration agency $41,000 as systems were shut down for three weeks. According to NASA, "the software [purported to be worth $1.7 million dollars] supported the International space stations physical environment, including the control of the temperature and humidity within the living space". James was later caught but received a light sentence due to his young age. He committed suicide in 2008 after he was accused for conspiring with other hackers to steal credit card information. James denied the allegation in his suicide letter.
5. Phone lines blocked to win PORSCHE (1995):-
Kevin poulsen is famous for his work in hacking into the Los Angeles phone system in a bid to win Ferrari on a radio competition. LA KIIS FM was offering a Porsche 944 S2 to the 102TH caller. Poulson guaranteed his success as he took control of the phone network and effectively blocked incoming calls to the radio's station number. He won the Porsche but the law caught up to him and he was sentenced to five years in prison. Poulson later became the senior editor for IT security publication, Wired News.
6. Hacker targets Scientology (2008):-
In January 2008, a new Jersey teenager along with a gang of hackers launched DDoS attack that crippled the church of Scientology website for several days. The group is dubbed Anonymous and is staunchly against "The Religion".
"Dmitry Guzner", who was 19 years old, was charged and convicted for the DDoS attack. The maximum penalty was 10 years prison and a $250,000 fine but he was ultimately sentenced for two years probation and was ordered to pay the Church of Scientology $37,500. A second man has been charged for the attack.
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